More of Waikiki

We walked towards Diamond Head today and stopped at the zoo, aquarium and walked along the beach. The zoo is the best one I have ever been at-the grounds were amazing with all of the beautiful plants and trees.

I was erasing a blurred picture off of my memory card and accidentally erased ALL the pictures on my memory card-I felt sick at my stomach until I remember that I had uploaded the pictures onto my laptop the night before. I still lost a few pictures from that day but made them up on the walk back to the hotel.

You can point your camera anywhere and take a great picture here. It's beautiful here with the water, lush plant life and the beach.

Tomorrow we plan on heading the other way down Kalakeanua Blvd. and see Iolani Palace, the memorials at Pearl Harbor and take a tour of the Dole Plantation.

Honolulu

The flight wasn't too bad. I dozed here and there, read a bit, did a bunch of crossword puzzles and watched a movie.

I am so jet-lagged and I'm at that point where I am too tired to sleep. The hotel is really nice but everything around here is ultra expensive so we ventured off a bit and found some local food that wasn't too pricey.

I haven't had a chance to take too many pictures because by the time we got unpacked and freshened up it was getting dark but I did take this from the balcony of the room:



I'll try to post more when I get some sleep and feel human again!

Oktopadi

This is cute!

9/11 ™

The real reason MSNBC removed Keith Olbermann from political coverage...

Hawaii VS Hurricane Ike

My flight out of Houston was canceled :O What is odd is that it is still showing the flight from Amarillo to Houston is active.

The Travelocity coordinator was great and worked hard to get me on another flight, but it'll have to be Monday. Sheraton Waikiki was very nice and moved my reservations as well.

So Hopefully, Monday afternoon this will be my view:



I was so under prepared, so this will give me some extra time to pack! I'm so nervous about the flight-I don't do so well flying. I used to be okay with it when I flew several times a year but I haven't flown since '05 when I won the trip to Las Vegas.

I have been having fun with my sweepstakes still-I passed the $12,000 mark for this year.

I am taking my laptop (if the flight Monday isn't cancelled!) and I'll post pictures at the end of the day from Hawaii.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and my thoughts are with everyone affected by Ike.

Spiders everywhere!

I was playing around with my fancy new camera that Rick bought me for our anniversary and while poking around outside for practice subjects, I found 3 scary specimens of spiders-if you aren't freaked out by spiders, click on each pic for close up goodness!

If you have pets...

And own a Four Paws Pimple Ball-cut it up and throw it away..



Read about what a pet owner of a lab mix named Chai went through.

It makes me mad that a company that knowingly will not do more to help spread the word about the dangers of it's own product. I used to have one of these but thankfully Rudy, who was an aggressive chewer, had it destroyed in less than an hour after I gave it to him.

The house seems so odd without Randy around. Randy would always come into the office while I was at the computer and lay down at my feet. Then if I had to get up he would follow me around, then follow me back to the office. He wouldn't go to his dog bed that I had next to my bed, until I went to bed. I have called for him twice today!

Taylor hasn't acted any different, but Petey has been acting odd-moping and needier than normal.

I found this picture of him and Taylor earlier-both who wiggled out of their sweaters less than 5 minutes after this picture:



Rick found this video he took of him the night we put the Christmas tree up in 2007. He kept sleeping under the tree even after we put the gifts under it. I kept a spot in the back empty so he could take his naps.

February 14, 1995 - September 4, 2008

Rest in peace lil old man-I'll miss you Randy...

Cute Puppy!

It sounds like he is saying "I want". This is cute! Make sure your turn your sound down a tad as it is a bit loud.

Puppies go to sleep!

Pilobolus

This is very interesting:

I'm the Geek in the Pink

Thanks for the Golden Years Sofia

Happy Independence day!

Thanks for the laughs!

Dody Goodman
October 12, 1915 - June 22, 2008



George Carlin
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

Meet the Neocons

I kissed a girl...

I found this earlier and thought it was fun

Articles of Impeachment...

Ginger posted this blog about how Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush (for high crimes and misdemeanors among other things) last night and how unless you were watching CSpan or saw a small blip of an article on the AP wire you missed it!

Wonder if he had gotten a BJ in the oval office from an intern if it would have been breaking news?

For the birds..

This is 10 days of growth for the chicks!

I won!!!

I'm still in shock! I won $10,000 on the Burger King Reveal the Secret instant win game! I got all of my paperwork in to them and now it's official-they put my name up today as the latest winner. Now when I take the trip to Hawaii that I won, I can splurge a little!



I hope everyone has a great weekend :)